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Mushrooms, Russia, and History

by: Valentina Pavlovna Wasson; R. Gordon Wasson

Topics: Fungi, Mushrooms, Soma, Toadstools, Ethnobotany, Botany, Hallucinogens, Entheogens, Folklore, Plants, Flora, Psychotropic, Medicine, Religion, Spirituality, History, Historical, Russia, Russian, England, Superstitions
Collection: robert-bedrosian-library; patron-library-collection
Item Size: 356.3M

Mushrooms, Russia, and History, by Valentina Pavlovna Wasson and R. Gordon Wasson, in 579 bookmarked and searchable pdf pages, with numerous plates and illustrations. The download contains both volumes of this two-volume set (New York, 1957). A Wikipedia entry discusses the work of the Wassons, who studied attitudes toward mushrooms in European cultures, and who "rediscovered" indigenous use of psychoactive mushrooms in different parts of the world. Compiled by Robert Bedrosian. Internet Archive has a selection of works about ethnobotany.

Contents:

Volume 1

I. Mushrooms and the Russians
II. Mushrooms and the English
III. Mushrooms and History
IV. Mushrooms for Murderers
V. The Riddle of the Toad and Other Secrets Mushroomic

Volume 2

V. The Riddle of the Toad and Other Secrets Mushroomic (continued)

Bibliographical Notes and Acknowledgements

Appendices:
1. Mushrooms in Tolstoy's 'Anna Karenina'
2. Aksakov's 'Remarks and Observations of a Mushroom Hunter'
3. Leuba's 'Hymn to the Morel'